grrgyleM to ✍️ WritingEnglish · 4 days ago

Writing Club - July 2024

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Writing Club - July 2024

grrgyleM to ✍️ WritingEnglish · 4 days ago

Welcome to the inaugural writing club update! This is a brand new writing club, first proposed here. I have some ideas about what I want from this club, but where we go from here is open ended.

So feel free to start new posts or spinoffs in between my monthly posts, as long as they jive with the rules in our gracious host community’s sidebar, you have my full support. :)

On to the whole point of this club! The following brave things set to text concrete goals for themselves (linked beside their names, just below). If you’d like to join their number, simply say so in the comments, along with your goal for this month. Okay, here are the stars of our show: 👏👏👏👏

Participants

You don’t have to share any of the actual material you’ve worked on unless you want to (you could even use our local Etherpad to share writing stuff - for example).

Here are some questions to start you off. I’m genuinely interested in your answers, but don’t feel you need to follow my script. This is just a prompt:

How do you think you did on your goal(s)?
What would you like to accomplish for our next check-in in August?
Is there a part of your project that you’d especially like feedback on?
Is there anything about this writing club you’d like us to do differently?

No stress if you didn’t accomplish everything you set out to (I fell short and I’m still here hehe). I would love to hear your updates no matter how things went!

I’ll share my own progress in a comment below. What I’m hoping from this step is that we treat this as part check-in, and part conversation. This is your chance to really dig into each others’ projects (and if someone has done so for you, maybe it would be nice to return the favour and take an interest in their own project? ;))

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I don’t think I did! I was just relating how we each seem to have a main project along with a related side project
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  Whoops, I saw it in my inbox and assumed it was a reply rather than because you tagged me - my bad!

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A community for writers, like poems, fiction, non-fiction, short stories, long books, all those sorts of things, to discuss writing approaches and what’s new in the writing world, and to help each other with writing.

Rules for now:

1. Try to be constructive and nice. When discussing approaches or giving feedback to excerpts, please try to be constructive and to maintain a positive vibe. For example, don’t just vaguely say something is bad but try to list and explain downsides, and if you can, also find some upsides. However, this is not to say that you need to pretend you liked something or that you need to hide or embellish what you disliked.

2. Mention own work for purpose and not mainly for promo: Feel free to post asking for feedback on excerpts or worldbuilding advice, but please don’t make posts purely for self promo like a released book. If you offer professional services like editing, this is not the community to openly advertise them either. (Mentioning your occupation on the side is okay.) Don’t link your excerpts via your website when asking for advice, but e.g. Google Docs or similar is okay. Don’t post entire manuscripts, focus on more manageable excerpts for people to give feedback on.

3. What happens in feedback or critique requests posts stays in these posts: Basically, if you encounter someone you gave feedback to on their work in their post, try not to quote and argue against them based on their concrete writing elsewhere in other discussions unless invited. (As an example, if they discuss why they generally enjoy outlining novels, don’t quote their excerpts to them to try to prove why their outlining is bad for them as a singled out person.) This is so that people aren’t afraid to post things for critique.

4. All writing approaches are valid. If someone prefers outlining over pantsing for example, it’s okay to discuss up- and downsides but don’t tell someone that their approach is somehow objectively worse. All approaches are on some level subjective anyway.

5. Solarpunk rules still apply. The general rules of solarpunk of course still apply.

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